Rome to Prague to Chemnitz

Wednesday 10th October 2018
Another big day of travel. Mum is totally exhausted before it even starts. Up early (5.45am), taxi arrived early putting us in a little bit of a flap, we arrived safely at the airport at 7.15am. Mum was a little concerned with the speed the taxi travelled but it wasn’t as fast as they can go. Checkin and bag drops with Alitalia is all automated, do it yourself. Mum would like to have gone to the counter as was suggested by one attendant and the next sent us to the machine. I like to have a go at the new stuff, so that we did. The only thing I struggled with was how to attached the luggage label which gave the guy that helped us a bit of a giggle. Always ready to give someone a laugh. We boarded the plane on time but then were delayed 45 minutes for take-off. A little worrying as we only had a 2 hour time frame to catch the bus, but all good we made up time in the air. We arrived in Prague only a little late, our taxi was on time and we were at the bus station with an hour to spare. Not quite enough time to go exploring in the Old Town as I had hoped, so we just sat, ate some lunch and rested at the bus stop. The bus trip from Prague to Chemnitz is very pretty, lovely countryside. We arrived at Chemnitz Bus Station about 5.30, so we had been going for almost 12 hours. Mum was pretty tired even though she had slept on and off all day on all forms of transport – taxi, plane, taxi, bus. We had hoped to catch a taxi from the bus station to Benny’s but there were none available, so walk again we did! It was a very slow walk as I wouldn’t let mum carry or drag any bags as she has had a couple of little trips on the cobblestones (luckily she was on my or Benny’s arm) and we need her to stay upright. She was very tired and my load was heavy. We made it and our day was done at 6.30pm. Mum was asleep by 8.30pm and slept soundly all night. Zzzzzzzzzzz or should I say SNOREEEEEEE!